Legendary collector of tennis artefacts visited the «VTB Kremlin Cup»

October 20, 07:00 PM

Time and again «VTB Kremlin Cup» proves to be a unique tournament with a rich history. The Moscow tournament always welcomes famous guests. Thus, before women’s finals Irina Ryazanova-Ermolova, legendary Soviet tennis player, one of the top ten tennis players in USSR from 1958-1966, the first Georgia's representative in women’s tennis and the winner of the Universiade-1959 in Torino, apid a visit to the tournament’s press-service.

Irina collects rare tennis artefacts and one of them is related to the «Kremlin Cup». She showed a collection of 28-year-old tickets which she got from the very first Moscow tournament held in 1990. She also told some stories about the past, one of those stories was related to a historical publication, which already lost colors.

In the year 1960 Irina Ryazanova-Ermolova and Anna Dmitrieva (present-day Match TV commentator at the «VTB Kremlin Cup») both played at Wimbledon. An English newspaper published a follow-up story which likened the 18-year-old Irina «Wimbledon Mystery» and Marilyn Monroe, the topline actress of the «Prince and the Showgirl», under one unifying title: «Front page women».

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